Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[James Carlson]

Nicolas Williams writes:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:52:38PM -0800, Mark Logan wrote:
> > 
> > >>>/usr/share/man/man8/parted.8      Volatile          Manual page (Phase 1)
> > >>>      
> > >
> > >This belongs in 1M.  There's no "8" on Solaris.
> > >
> > >  
> > There is a section 8 in Nevada. I would prefer to leave the man pages in 
> > section 8 since it would mean less changes.
> 
> It's a bug.

Exactly.  The fact that others have blown this doesn't mean that new
projects should get it wrong as well.

It should probably give you pause if you do "man -s 8 Intro" and see
that there's no common description of what's in the section.

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